Category Archives: Around the Web

Around the Web#7: Abortion

Irish politician Lucinda Creighton made a powerful case against abortion on 1st July 2013. The full text of the speech can be read here. Creighton warns of the corrosive power of “group-think”:

It seems that if you do not succumb to the accepted view that abortion is a “liberal issue”, a “women’s rights issue”, a cornerstone of the “progressive agenda”, then you are deemed to be a backward, illiberal, Neanderthal fundamentalist who belongs to a different era.

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Around the Web #6: Jesus is not a Legend

Of all the horrible memes, the most horrible is the meme that there is some doubt over the existence of Jesus. It comes in many forms: the “Jesus Myth” and  the” Multiple Jesus” hypothesis are perhaps the most popular.  Proclaiming themselves to be enlightened and educated, many “New Atheists” have joined ranks with astrologers and the Flat Earth society.

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